Package: cupsys Version: 1.1.23-12 Severity: important CUPS lacks a proper interface for automated update of PPDs. This causes updates in hpijs that require up-to-date hplip-ppds/foomatic-filters-ppds PPDs to silently break printing on people's systems, often in very annoying ways.
Ideally, CUPS should reload any PPDs that have been modified on disk, or at the very least allow us to command it to do so programatically. The current way to unbreak printing due to an outdated PPD requires manual intervention from the printing administrator, which needs to "Modify" the printer in a CUPS administrative interface to force a PPD reload. This is not only very sub-par and user unfriendly, it is also quite often very annoying (CUPS does *NOT* pre-fill the forms with all the current settings, which is a bug on its own). -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.13.4-debian1+libata+bluesmoke+imq+lm85 Locale: LANG=pt_BR.ISO-8859-1, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.ISO-8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages cupsys depends on: ii adduser 3.67.2 Add and remove users and groups ii debconf [debconf-2. 1.4.58 Debian configuration management sy ii gs-esp 8+8.15rc4.dfsg.1-2.1 The Ghostscript PostScript interpr ii libc6 2.3.5-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libcupsimage2 1.1.23-12 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii libcupsys2 1.1.23-12 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii libgnutls12 1.2.6-1 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr ii libpam0g 0.79-3 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libpaper1 1.1.14-3 Library for handling paper charact ii libslp1 1.2.1-3 OpenSLP libraries ii patch 2.5.9-2 Apply a diff file to an original ii perl-modules 5.8.7-5 Core Perl modules ii procps 1:3.2.5-1 /proc file system utilities ii xpdf-utils 3.01-2 Portable Document Format (PDF) sui ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-4 compression library - runtime Versions of packages cupsys recommends: ii cupsys-client 1.1.23-12 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii foomatic-filters 3.0.2-20050720-1 linuxprinting.org printer support ii smbclient 3.0.14a-6 a LanManager-like simple client fo -- debconf information excluded -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]